Friday photo 2014/33

in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, July 2014

Haiku 2014/226

I'm watching a cat
warily watching a bird
wary of us both

Haiku 2014/225

watching the leaves fall
I am filled with reflections
the leaves cannot feel

Haiku 2014/224

breezes for blankets
exhaustion for my pillow
right now for midnight

Haiku 2014/223

birds in my birdbath,
when this water-boy comes near
why do you fly off

Poem of the Week 2014/33

I had something else planned for this week and then a nasty virus knocked me flat for several days, so I am once again calling on Sappho to see me through:

My lovely friends

How could I change
towards you who
are so beautiful?

Sappho

Lovely readers, take this beautiful fragment as thanks from me. This is from the Mary Barnard translation.

Haiku 2014/222

tree limbs hanging low
wave endlessly in the wind
no wind stirs my limbs

Haiku 2014/221

winds blow a sad tune
one tall thin weed sways in time
partnered by shadows

Haiku 2014/220

snail snug in his house
trespassed in a human house
man foreclosed on snail

Friday photo 2014/32

The Japantown bridge over Geary Street, San Francisco, July 2014